The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 22
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 22 throughout the world and made mention of every single type of their evil deeds. And by painting such a picture, it manifested the misdeeds of the contemporary age such that ever since the creation of the world, no age resembled it except that of Noah. The extent to which I have written the verses here furnish conclusive arguments of the highest standard. Therefore, I have not written down each and every verse for fear of elongation. Readers should study the Holy Qur’an attentively so that they may realize how emphatically and effectively the Holy Qur’an is pointing out in many places that the whole world had been corrupted—that the entire earth had [spiritually] died and peo- ple were standing on the brink of hell. And see how it repeat- edly urged [the Holy Prophet s as ] to warn the whole world that their condition was indeed most fearful. A study of the Qur’an certainly reveals that the world was rotting in shirk [associating partners with God], misconduct, idol worship, and all manner of sins, and had become drowned in the deep well of evil deeds. It is quite true that the Gospels also mention some of the sins of the Jews, but nowhere did Jesus say that all the people living on the face of the earth—who can be referred to as all the worlds—had been corrupted and had died; that the world had been filled with shirk [associating partners with God] and misconduct; nor did he make a universal claim to messengership. So it is clear that the Jews, who were the addressees of Jesus, were a very small nation. In fact, they alone were the focus of the Messiah’s attention and populated just a few villages. But the Noble Qur’an has made mention of the death of the whole world and it describes the